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More NVK Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 24.3

Phoronix - Sun, 08/18/2024 - 18:20
Faith Ekstrand has merged another two dozen patches for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 24.3...

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 22:50
Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library...

Vulkan 1.3.293 Released With NVIDIA Command Buffer Inheritance Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 20:42
Vulkan 1.3.293 released on Friday as the newest specification for this industry standard graphics and compute API. In addition to a handful of fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.3.293 introduces a new NVIDIA vendor extension...

GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 18:55
Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GNOME-Session code have also seen the ability added to compile without X11 support...

Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 18:47
Archinstall is the wonderful command-line driven installer that was introduced to the Arch Linux ISOs three years ago for making it quicker and easier to get a customized Arch Linux installation. Out today is Archinstall 2.8.2 to further refine that experience...

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 18:28
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

AMD Preparing Linux For Smart Data Cache Injection With "Upcoming" CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 04:55
AMD Linux engineers are preparing the kernel for Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) as a feature for AMD EPYC server processors. Smart Data Cache Injection is a nifty new feature that allows for direct insertion of data from I/O devices into the CPU's L2/L3 cache...

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